Stemming the tide?
Subtitle: the effect of expanding medicaid eligibility on health insurance
By: Lara D. Shore-Sheppard.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11091; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11091.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Poor children -- Medical care -- United States.; Child health services -- United States.; Medicaid.
Description: "Despite considerable research, there is little consensus about the impact of Medicaid eligibility expansions for low-income children.  In this paper, I reexamine the expansions' impact on Medicaid take-up and private insurance "crowd-out." Focusing on the most influential estimates of the expansions' impact, I show that while many of the critiques leveled at these estimates have little effect on their magnitude, accounting for age-specific trends in coverage produces estimates similar to others in the literature.  Estimating the impact of later expansions using additional years of data, I find low rates of take-up and no evidence of crowding out"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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